The Palatka daily news. (Palatka, Fla.) 1884-1888, 1887-06-03
The Senate Amends the AppOrtiOn
ment Bill.
PROMISING SCHEME GIVEN IT'S QUlETUS
IN THE HOUSE.
Carefully LaiA Plan for Securing the State Deposits
for Ring-Large Profit Expected
One Speech Killed 1t.
SpeciaI 10 the Pnlmkd Nelcs.


mission bill; the bill to change the term
of holding court in the Second Circuit;
the bill Incorporating the st. Johns River
and Gulf Railway Company; the bill
empowering the city government OF Or
Iando to levy certain taxes; bill confer
ring police powers on the directors of
the Jacksonville and Atlantic Railway
Company; also the bill to protect fe-
males of immature age and Judgment
from lasciviousness, which was House
Bill and passed that body first, having
been prepared and introduced under the
supervision of Chaplain Partridge, 1t
makes the age of consent II years instead
of 10, as in the bill introduced by Mr..
Kelly.
The Senate passed also the House
Apnortionment Bill, amending it in sew
.eral respects, notably by reducing the
representation in the House from Marion
County and giving Monroe two members
instead of one.
TALK OF AN EXTRA SESSION.
A large part of the day was spent in
the consideration of the Revenue Bill by
sections. The work drags slowly in the
senate and there is lot of talk among
the Senators about an extra session, but
as nearly every important or at least
every actually necessary measure has
passed the House, except one or two
which can easily be disposed
of Tomorrow, there would be no
necessity for this if the Senate
was as far advanced with the work of
the session. Nor would there be any
need of working until twelve O'Clock,
tonight, as both Houses are to do as well
as tomorrow night. OF course the num-
ber of bills in both Houses left undis-
posed of will be large, as it always is,
but no occasion can possibly exist for an
extra session for the passage of these.
The Senate confirmed the county offi-
GERS for the new county of Lee, and also
James Nj. Baker as Judge of the Fourth
Circuit.
=. THE HOUSE.
In the House the following bills passed
to-day The Senate bill making the ap-
preparation for the State Agricultural
College of $500; the joint resolution re-
lating to the Indian War Claims; the
House bill to suppress gambling.
The Senate bill regulating the fees to
be charged by clerks for certifying to rec
-ords and abstracts came up and, after
sotae debate, the House bill on similar
subject was substituted for the same
and will come up tomorrow. The bill
to allow certain parties to mine for phOs-
lhates, etc, will probable get left in the
yeneraI scramble.
cir. Duncan, of Sumter, from the
Con 'Inittee on Urgent Business, re-
norte,, additional selected list of bills to
he CONS Iered, viz: Finance, Taxation,
1revenue I'D Tax Levy Bill, Registra-
tron Bill. a, ,p1stionment, (now in the
Senatel Rai,. .~oa.i Conmission Bill.
(passeeD and MI. .,itia Bill The bill fixing
the per cent. of the tax 10 De levied
for 1887 and 1888 was passed without
amendment after sol ne oppositit>n N on the
part of few mem bers- 1t fixfss the
State tax at 3! milIs-;nn increase OF .c'h
a-mill from last year and the county
tax (maximum) at mil ls-one mill re-
duction from last year.
The new Railroad Conn 1ission bill was
passed without amendment after being
referred to the Committee on railroads.
who reported it identically with House
Bill No. 1, with the Senate amendments
printed ON Tuesday by the said commit
tee. The bill will be in the hands of the
Governor tonight.
SCHEME SPOILED.
The greatest excitement of the day in
the..House was ON the consideration of the
Senate Bill No. 100 purporting to be a
bull ''for the greater protection of the
moneys of the State and the Internal
Improvement Fund but which n quick
witted member who penetrated its true
inwardness at a glance has dubbed a
bill for the exclusive benefit and pecun-
iary advantage os three or four banking
institutions. This measure has the
honor of having been lobbied by sys-
tematic aud deliberate assaults
upon the understanding and opinions of
members, quite equal, it not more per-
tiIsteiouS anu uctctiiiititi ttlstu III tfie
case of of the Jacksonville Charter Bill.
An elaborate argument, printed in
aesthetic style and distributed to menu
bers in large square envelopes, was
powerfully supplemented by unceasl
ing personal pleadings with nearly
every member by some one or
other member of the third house. -
This plan seems to have succeeded i'm
the Senate, which passed the bill. but it
worked exactly the other way in the
House, and a general storm of indigna-
tion greeted it and showed ii under in
that body. Its provisions include the re-
auirement that all collectors or holders
of State funds should deposit the
same in one of the few de
positories to be designated by
the Governor, Comptroller and Treas
urers under the penalty of prosecution
for felony. also, that the State shall have
only 3 per cent. interest from moneys
which the depositers will get from IL to
"a per cent. for. The bill requiries the
depository banks to give bond
or deposit securities to the amount
of 100000 without reference
to the amount of the fund likely to be
ON deposit, SO that only one or two
banks in the State could comply with it,